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Dr Marta Rocchi, Dublin University and Dr Angus
Robson, Northumbria University
About the seminar
Are workers going
to be replaced by machines?" Artificial Intelligence (AI) has
brought new urgency to answering this question. In this seminar two
researchers who have written about the limits of AI will lead our
thinking. Dr Marta Rocchi from Dublin City University and Northumbria's
Dr Angus Robson have published separate academic papers on AI in the context of
care work. Both have argued that while machines can "do", only
human beings can "work."
The seminar will take
us through the four industrial revolutions. This history is necessary if
we are to understand why work is all too often thought of in terms of production
rather than relationships. Care work provides an excellent example of why
this thinking can lead us astray for it is all about the specific attention
that is paid to a particular person and cannot be appreciated if we reduce it
to the ability to perform a task or a role. In the age of Covid, a
new appreciation has emerged for this sort of work and our speakers will argue
that this has important lessons for how we think about the future of work and
its relationship to AI."
About the speakers
Dr Marta Rocchi is Assistant Professor in Corporate Governance and
Business Ethics at Dublin City University Business School and a member of the
Irish Institute of Digital Business. She previously worked as Research Fellow
and Vice-Director of the Markets, Culture and Ethics Research Centre in Rome,
Italy. She was awarded the “Society for Business Ethics Founders’ Award” in
2016 as Emerging Scholar of the Society for Business Ethics, the 2016 Rafael
Termes Research Prize on ethics and finance, and the first prize ex-aequo of
the Ethics and Trust in Finance Global Prize of the Observatoire de la Finance
in 2019. Marta’s research focuses on virtue ethics in business, business ethics
in the future of work and the ethical dilemmas of the digital world. She has published
in Business Ethics Quarterly, Journal of Business Ethics, and Business
Ethics: A European Review.
Dr Angus Robson is Senior Lecturer in Business Ethics and Leadership at
Northumbria University, UK. He moved to academia following a career
in the third sector. His main research interest is in Aristotelian virtue
ethics, with an emphasis on hermeneutics and the work of Alasdair MacIntyre. He
has published on ethics in the contexts of banking and care work in the Journal
of Business Ethics, the Journal of Institutional Economics, Business
Ethics: A European Review, Nursing Ethics and the recent Routledge
volume, Virtue and Virtue Education in Theory and Practice.
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